Chapter 11

Jeanette stumbled about the small cage she and her siblings had been put in; the boys were in there with them. She and Simon were the only ones up; they were still trying to figure out how to break out.

Simon peered out of the small wooden bars, even though they were made of wood there was no way they could break it without being noticed. There were still some chipmunks that lurked about underneath them; there was also a guard that sat on the branch just above the cage.

Simon looked over at Jeanette as she paced up and down, he smiled. He pushed off the bars and made his way over to her, she seemed to be thinking hard about something. Simon thought it would be best if he just stood beside her, this was just in case he woke her up from her trance.

Jeanette studied the wood and the slight gap in between each wood plank; she also watched the chipmunk above them. The only thing Jeanette could see was the light brown furred foot that hung limply over the side of the branch, she smiled 'he's sleeping'.

The purple clad chipette hardly noticed her counterpart before crashing into him, both of their glasses hung limply off their noses.

Jeanette gasped "oh my god! Simon, are you ok? I never meant that I sw-" she was cut off as Simon placed his finger to her lips, this made her blush slightly. Without a second thought Simon pushed her glasses up and helped her to her feet. Jeanette blushed like mad and avoided eye contact, Simon just laughed.

"It's ok, Jeanette! I'm not mad" he said calmly, Jeanette smiled at him as she dusted off her skirt.

"Thanks, Si" she said just as calm, that sudden burst of nervousness just disappeared like a cloud of smoke.

Jeanette pointed up at the snoozing chipmunk above them, Simon smiled at her. They both thought the same thing, well… sort of.

"Ok, Simon! Are you ready?" she asked, Simon gave her a puzzled look. "Um… for what?" he asked, Jeanette smiled.

"Well someone has to get us out of here!" she said

"I thought we were going to wait until Alvin got up and then get him to do it!"

"No, besides you're the only boy up and you know how Alvin gets when you try to get him up in the morning!"

Simon sighed in defeat "fine, I'll do it" he said shakily, he began to slip out through the wooden bars.

Jeanette then called to him "I believe in you, Simon!" This gave him a sudden burst of confidence as he began to quickly climb up the bars; he was now on top of the cage and slowly made his way to the rope that hung the cage to a branch.

Simon hugged onto the rope and slowly slithered up it, he was doing quite well for a chipmunk that didn't enjoy sports! He was now on the same branch as the snoozing chipmunk; he saw a rusty key dangling out of the sleeping munk's limp hand. Simon hugged onto the branch and slowly but carefully pulled himself along the branch and closer to the keys; he reached out his long arm and just barely grabbed the keys.

He pushed himself away from the chipmunk and continued to climb back down the rope; once he was standing at the door of the cage he quietly put the rusty keys into a small lock. Simon looked at the lock that looked like it was just stuck onto the wooden bars; he prayed that it would open.

Simon was relieved as the door swung open; everyone was awake now and was making their way out of the cage. Simon held the door open for Elle since she was the last one to get out.

She suddenly slipped and just managed to grab the door, Simon was on it too and this made him fall. He landed painfully on his head and was knocked unconscious; Jeanette was at his side in minutes. Eleanor looked down at her family; she knew she would fall any second now.

She held her breath and let go, she just hoped someone would catch her. Theodore saw her fall and held his arms out ready to catch his falling girlfriend, He did catch her but he was knocked to the ground by the sudden force which caused Eleanor to land painfully on her leg.

She yelped in pain, Theodore shook his head and rushed to her side apologizing to her. Tears spilled out of her eyes as she quietly sobbed into Theodore's hoodie, she knew she had to keep quiet but the pain was unbearable if she put any pressure onto her injured leg.

"Ok, Theo. You'll have to carry Eleanor so that she doesn't hurt her leg anymore and I'll carry Simon" Alvin said as he hoisted his blue clad brother onto his shoulder. Theodore picked up Elle, bridal style so he wouldn't put anymore unwanted pressure to her injury.

They all slowly snuck into the trees, after walking for several minutes they heard shouting, the other chipmunks must have just realised that they were gone. They all quickened their pace as the voices got louder and closer, soon enough they had found the fleeing chipmunks.

The Chipmunks and The Chipettes looked down at the huge cliff; the water looked dangerous as it smashed off the cliff walls. Everyone gulped as they heard the leaves rustling; they all whipped around to see the wild chipmunks. They didn't look happy at all!

"Trying to escape, are we?" the one that they presumed was the leader said, Alvin just grunted.

"What! Do you really just expect us to sit around and die in that cage! If you do then you have another thing coming" Alvin slowly put Simon onto the ground and the others dragged him over to the side. The leader just grunted at him and gave him a mean glare; he still had the spear in his hand. Alvin watched as he threw it in his direction, Alvin managed to duck on time just before it hit him.

As Alvin tried to collect himself the leader charged at him, he ran straight into Alvin. This knocked all the wind out of Alvin and then he fell down to the ground, his head was just hanging off the edge. The leader came up and stood on Alvin's chest making Alvin wheeze in pain, the leader smiled evilly at him.

"Once I'm done with you it will be your family next!" Alvin's eyes widened.

"You leave them alone!" Alvin wheezed "Why are you even after us?"

The leader put more pressure onto Alvin's chest; this made him cough and splutter. The leader laughed at Alvin's lame attempts of trying to get up, he was enjoying this.

"You stole the king's guitar!" He said gruffly, Alvin's memory shot back to when he had tripped over it. Alvin wheezed and the leader stepped off of him, allowing him to stand up.

"I'll return the guitar but then you have to leave me and my siblings alone!" Alvin said as he rubbed the part of his chest where there was now a big red patch. The leader grabbed his hands and tied some vine around Alvin's wrists.

He turned towards his guards "You all take them to the kingdom" he said gesturing towards the others who looked pretty shaken up, except Simon of course. "I'll deal with him" the leader finished as he pushed Alvin out of sight and then followed closely behind.

As soon as those two disappeared the others got pushed off in the other direction, they were all very scared, who was the king? They walked along the muddy path; there were guards all around them. One of them was carrying Simon; Jeanette kept an eye on him just in case.

Theodore helped Elle to walk, he still felt really bad even if she did say it was ok. Brittany walked at the back of her siblings, she just hoped that the leader isn't hurting Alvin.

They all saw a big wooden gate; there were other guards on the other side who pulled the gate open for them, the guards pointed to a small hut made out of wood and leaves.

"You all will wait in there until Elad comes back with your friend!" with that they marched off to the barracks, the other chipmunks decided to do as he said. They walked into the small hut, there was a chipette sitting on a leaf hammock in there.

She smiled and stood up to greet them "why hello there! My name is Eve and I'm the nurse, is there anything I can do for you?" she asked. Theodore helped Eleanor step forward and Jeanette pulled Simon onto one of the beds, the nurse looked at them both.

"DIANNE" she called, soon enough another chipette whipped round the door "Yes?" she asked. Eve pointed at Eleanor.

"This one has a sore leg, do some tests to see how serious it is!" Dianne nodded and then looked at Eleanor and Theodore; she smiled warmly at them both.

"Well, let's go!" she said as she led the out of the room, Brittany decided to slump down against the wall until Alvin got back. Eve sat down next to the bed Simon was on; she rolled him onto his back and removed his hoodie. Jeanette couldn't help but bush and look away, she knew they were animals but it still seemed wrong to look at each other when they had no clothes on, it made blush like mad and a shiver shot up her spine.

Once Eve had finished with checking his pulse and his heart beat she slipped his hoodie back on, she noticed a slight bump on his head. She grabbed a thin green leaf and put some sort of paste in it, from what Jeanette could tell it was just mashed up fruit with a few other things in it. Eve tied the 'bandage' around his head and turned to face Jeanette.

"Well I can assure you that your mate will be fine!" Jeanette's eyes widened when she said mate.

"Um… me and Simon aren't mates, we're just good friends!"

Brittany chuckled "looks like you sprung a nerve there, Eve!" she said, Jeanette just glared at her which made her look away. Eve smiled "oops… sorry I never knew!"

Jeanette smiled "Don't worry; It's not your fault!" Jeanette said smiling at her, Eve smiled back.

"Well, your friend will be just fine, he's got a nasty bump on the head and all he needs is to sleep right now. He'll wake up in the morning" she said to Jeanette before walking out to check on Theo and Elle. Jeanette stayed by Simon's side.

"Everything's going to be ok, Si! You'll wake up tomorrow and it will be like nothing happened… unless you forget about me!" Jeanette's violet eyes widened "No! You can't forget about me, you just can't"

Brittany sat down beside Jeanette and hugged her "trust me, Jean! No one can ever forget about you! You're too nice to forget and you're a great friend, plus you're a really great sister!" Jeanette smiled at her sister and they stayed like that for a while. Eleanor walked in with wooden crutches and she demanded to join in on the sisterly hug so they stood up and wrapped their arms around their baby sister.

Soon enough Alvin walked in through the gate; Elad still had a tight grip on him. Alvin grunted as he kept pushing him, it was like he thought Alvin didn't know how to walk! They walked up some wooden stairs that were built going around the side of a large tree; Alvin didn't even know where they were going!

It finally came to a little hollow in the trunk; Elad threw him in and then disappeared back down the stairs. Alvin gulped as he saw a dark figure sitting on the chair across the room; it was very dark inside the hollow.

"So you're the one who stole my guitar?" the figure asked, Alvin slowly nodded. He heard some creaking and then he saw the kings two feet right in front of him, he looked up but the top half of the king was covered in a black shadow. The king gasped and took a step back into the darkness, Alvin looked around.

"What? What is it?" Alvin asked, the king walked back into the light and then untied the vines around Alvin's wrists, Alvin hesitantly stood up. The king was now in front of Alvin, Alvin just stared in shock.

The king was the same height as Simon, he also had the same neat fur as him but only it was a little darker. He was Alvin's build (not too fat and not too skinny) he had the same features as Alvin like the gleaming eyes and the smirk (Alvin does the smirk better though) the hair on the top of his head was the same style as Theo's; he also had the same eye colour, a dark forest green.

Alvin gulped "Dad?" he asked. The king's eyes widened.

"It really is you, Alvin!" He said before giving him a tight hug, Alvin returned it.

"Dad what are you doing a way out here? Is mum with you?" Alvin asked, Jack just smiled "I want to hear your story first!"

Alvin sighed "ok, brace yourself cause your about to be blown away!" Alvin said before telling his dad about all the things him, his brothers and the Chipettes had gotten up to through the years.

About half an hour later Alvin was done with his story, his dad did seem pretty blown away.

"Well, I best tell you how we got here!" Alvin nodded "well it was the night when me and your mum lest you three, it was snowing when we left so we found some shelter in a tree, well at least we thought it was a tree! It was strapped to the back of a truck so while we were sleeping we were put onto the boat and were going overseas. There were all different types of chipmunks and chipettes, they all decided to escape so we climbed out of the trees and then found a small life boat. We chewed off all the ropes and then set adrift in the ocean, that's when we found this island and set up our new home!"

Alvin smiled "let's go get the others and tell them the great news!" he cheered, with that they both walked down the stairs and towards the hut where their family was waiting.

There was still one thing tugging at Alvin's mind, why was Jack being so nice to him? Alvin knew he was his dad but he didn't even get the slightest bit mad when he mentioned Dave or that they were rock stars and they loved to sing! Something was very wrong here and Alvin was going to get to the bottom of it!

Well there's chapter 11! I know what you are all thinking "how do chipmunks make a kingdom in the jungle on a deserted island?" well my answer is that they managed to make resources and worked together as a team, there are also some birds and bats that help them but you'll find out more about them later on in the story :D Any way please read and review oh and did anyone spot something strange about one of the characters… If you didn't don't worry cause you'll find out soon enough!